ENCINITAS: Driver arrested after roll-over crash

A Northern California man who tried to circumvent heavy
Encinitas traffic by driving in the emergency lane accidentally
flipped his truck over, then wound up under arrest on suspicion of
drunken driving late Thursday afternoon, a San Diego sheriff's
sergeant said.

Evaristo Escalante of Redway was headed west on La Costa Avenue
when he came upon a traffic backup near North Coast Highway just
after 5 p.m., Sgt. Anthony O'Boyle said. Escalante used the
emergency lane to reach a dirt parking lot, apparently to do a
U-turn, O'Boyle said, but the 41-year-old man took the turn too
fast and rolled his Ford Ranger.

Neither Escalante nor his 40-year-old female passenger were
injured in the crash, but deputies arrested Escalante on suspicion
of drunken driving, O'Boyle said.